I got a chance to interview the insightful David Parmet, one of the PR bloggers in the social media space that ‘gets it’. David reviews the classic cases of business blogging for small businesses, such as Stormhoek and English Cut. If you’re not familiar with these case studies, they used social media for their marketing […]

Since I worked at HDS, I’ve been watching the online data storage industry carefully, and continue to observe. EMC has made a strategic buy in the Online Data Storage space by acquiring Mozy, “with a nearly $40 billion market cap. EMC paid $76 million for the company, according to two sources close to the deal.” […]

A few weeks ago there was a dust up criticizing bloggers who only point and link to themselves called “back linking”. Whether it was because they were wanting to keep people on their own site or are too insecure about losing traffic to others it doesn’t really matter. I think we’re missing the heart of […]

I had an amazing week at Hong Kong, I was on vacation, but for me that meant meeting many web companies and industry leaders. Most of all, I love being the typical tourist, exploring and taking lots of photos. I was speaking about Virtual Worlds and Social Networking to some of Asia’s investors at the […]

I’m leaving beloved Hong Kong and am flying on Cathay Pacific to Vancouver, excited to attend VidFest. The running joke among my friends and family is “So what’s the difference” as many of Hong Kong and China’s residents have moved there in the past decades. I’ll be speaking on a panel called “MyFace, YourSpace: Maximizing […]

Click To Play Leon writes a blog called LifeHack (not the same as lifehacker), and has a Technorati rank of 38! He focuses on helping people make their lives easier by using the web. We’re in Hong Kong’s central distract on the night of the blogger dinner. I ask Leon three questions, hear how he […]